On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 16:18 -0500, jsestri2@xxxxxxxx wrote: > What is this file and why is it accessed at startup? At the startup of > every Java program, it would appear that the paths: > "/META-INF/INDEX.LIST" and "" are have the stat file operation applied > to them. > > I am working on a research project at UIUC and I have an issue with > this happening due to the nature of the file system which the custom > JVM we have created works. If anyone has information relating to > where / why these accesses are made it would be very appreciated. > Essentially I need to figure out what they are supposed to be > accomplishing since it doesn't seem to matter that they fail. Avoiding > them all together or routing them through an alternative means would > be ideal. One point where it's used is in java/lang/VMClassLoader to gather the information about the boot packages. Btw. HotSpot adds boot packages to the list when a class is loaded via the bootstrap classloader. So, the list does not contain all packages at startup but grows during runtime. Maybe this could be an incompatibility somewhere, but I don't know what the spec says here. - twisti
